Problems with Mohans GCJ 20030522 build

Tue Jun 3 18:30:00 GMT 2003

>>It's just weird, that's all. Unless you have a nonstandard `as', I'd
>>expect to find it in the main bin directory. I'd also expect the
>>On Win32, Microsoft isn't bundling GNU binutils with the OS yet,
>so I dumped binutils in with gcc so people didn't have to download
>something extra. I have mixed feelings about this, though, as it makes
>the download size bigger and makes it harder to mix and match.

What about the topics of my original posting? :-)
There appears to be two problems:
a) gcj does not find "as" if gcj (and therefore "as") isn't
in the path.
b) gcj crashes if with the "as" in 20030522
About search paths in Windows: I know Win32 has logic to add 
the directory of the executable for a process to the search path. 
This is why you can place .dlls next to .exe files instead of placing
them in the search path.
This made me wonder whether it is GCJ or Windows that allows gcj
to find "as" when it is not in the path, but in the same directory
as gcj.
(I've exchanged a couple of e-mails with Mohan on this issue, but
so far we haven't gotten further than observing that this is new
as of >20030409).
Øyvind